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Winning $1.1 million Megabucks lottery ticket sold at Portland grocery store

PORTLAND — The Maine Lottery announced on Thursday afternoon that a winning Megabucks ticket for the Wednesday drawing was sold at a Portland grocery store. Someone who shopped at the Shaw’s Westgate Supermarket on Congress Street has a lottery ticket worth $1.1 million, the lottery office announced, and the store that sold the lucky slip […]

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Couple finally hits the jackpot — after almost winning in 1986

Madawaska’s Megabucks winner Jeanne Gagnon purchases this week’s ticket from Susan Williams, owner of Bob’s Neighborhood Store, where she bought her $3 million ticket two weeks ago with her husband, Robert Gagnon.  MADAWASKA — In February 1986, Robert and Jeanne Gagnon had the winning Megabucks lottery numbers for the weekly drawing. Not that it mattered. […]

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Megabucks winners promise $3 million jackpot won’t change their lives

MADAWASKA — In February 1986, Robert and Jeanne Gagnon had the winning Megabucks lottery numbers for the weekly drawing. Not that it mattered. “I had all the numbers,” Jeanne Gagnon said Wednesday. “But my husband forgot to pick up a ticket that day.” “And I’ve been hearing about it ever since,” her husband, Robert Gagnon, […]

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Winning $3 million Megabucks ticket sold in Madawaska

MADAWASKA — Maine’s newest millionaires are choosing to remain anonymous, for now, according to the manager of the store where Wednesday’s winning $3 million Tri-State Megabucks lottery ticket was bought. “They are very nice people and good customers,” Susan Williams, manager at Bob’s Neighborhood Store in Madawaska, said Thursday afternoon. “I am very excited for […]